Around the City

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 72, 26 March 1936, Page 6

Around the City

Paragraphs About People and Events

Summer time, which commenced last September, will officially eomo to an cud for the season ou April 26, at two o’clock in the morning, New Zealand standard time, when docks will bo put back 30 minutes. <*> <s><s> <3> Metalling the former cinder drives in the botanical gardens adjoining the Victoria Esplanade is now in progress, and a solid roadway is being laid throughout. Access is given from Mauawaroa street and through two connections with Victoria drive.

The site selected in Vogel street fot the sinking of tho new artesian boro is ou the bank of the Tc Hawaii stream. It is not considered that too water at this point will bo drawn from the same strata, as those which feed 1-Icrclaunga street and gasworks bores.

Tar-scaling of Hcrctaunga street and Fcutkerstone street cast is now in progress, two gangs of men being engaged on the work. Lombard street is the next to receive attention, and this will practically mark the completion of the City Council’s road sealing schedule for the current financial year.

Eleven thousand feet of millablu timber, on which a royalty is payable to the Palmerston North City Council, have been secured from kakikatea (white pine) trees blown down at the Esplanade by- the hurricane early in February. Logging and clearance operations are in full swing at the motor camp site. <S> <s>«s> <S>

Periodically, small children playing round the fountain in the Square fall into the pool, where the water is over two feet deep. Tho City Council has now made arrangements for river boulders to be placed in the water a yard from the edge and six inches below the surface, so that children who fall in will be alilo to clamber out again without difficulty. <s><s><?><?>

Lester Burberry, a 17-year-old farm labourer, of Levin, appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in tho Magistrate s Court yesterday charged with the theft at Levin on March 14 of an electric torch, valued at 7s 6d, the property of some person unknown. On the application of Detective-Sergeant Bickerdike a remand until April 1 was grunted. <s><s><»<?>

Until a fairly late hour on Tuesday evening senior officials were ou duty at the Chief Post Office attending to a steady stream of callers who sought all manner of information regarding the filling in of census forms, or who claimed that they had not received schedules. Sub-enumerators yesterday began the collection of forms which had been issued, and a night staff will be engaged in checking these.

Within the next month it is hoped to resume the removal of silt from the Tiritea reservoir. The work has been in progress, at suitable periods of tho year, for several seasons, but was entirely supended last year on account of the muddy condition created in the stream by the sluicing in the lower part of the stream rendering the water unlit for consumption by stock. The remainder of the mud accumulation in the reservoir, it is estimated, will take about a month to clear.

As an illustration of the extent to which some countries permit radio advertising, a certain station in Mcxicu will take some beating. Listeucrs-ii: yesterday were intrigued to hear the discourse of a "psychological scientist who, for the fee of one dollar, offered to correctly answer five written questions. Testimonials supporting his efficiency were read over the air, and these embraced subjects ranging from domestic strife to the inheritance of wealth. Thus the marvel of radiology serves to play a part in the age-old ga-mo of extracting money from a gullible public.

A prominent competitor in the speedboat contests at the anuual regatta ot the Waitara Regatta Club was Mr F. M. Fullyn, of Palmerston North, who entered his craft, Miss Manawatu. Ln the Clifton Speedboat Handicap Miss Manawatu developed engine trouble when it appeared that it might Jill a place, but good performances were registered later when a first iu the Taranaki handicap and a second in the forced handicap were secured. Iu the former race, Miss Manawatu made up what seemed to be au almost impossible handicap to snatch a popular victory in the last straight by a margin of 15 yards. <s><s> <«> -S* There is at present being laid in Victoria avenue the final section of the Terrace watercourse conduit, the construction of which has been in progress, as circumstances and finances have permitted, since 1920. The total length of the conduit, which places under cover what was formerly known as “Plague Creek,’ ’ is 130 chains, aud it is estimated that the cost of the ■work has aggregated about £15,000. Sections have been carried out by contract, some by day labour and others by relief workers. The conduit is one of the major stormwater drains of the city. The outlet is in Foxton line, and the conduit extends back, just below the bottom of tho terrace, which is practically defined by Church street, to Victoria avenue, where it narrows down to its beginning.